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The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: An introduction into the joint blog symposium

Law Columbia

The exact content of the due diligence obligation is influenced by several factors, including “scientific and technological information, relevant international rules and standards, the risk of harm and the urgency involved” (para. The Convention and the Paris Agreement are separate agreements, with separate sets of obligations.

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

While countries generally do not explicitly reference CDR in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted to the Paris Agreement, many include the CDR approaches of increasing soil and forest carbon. The Paris Agreement did not reference or define CDR, nor did it define the term “removals.”

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ITLOS and the importance of (getting) external rules (right) in interpreting UNCLOS

Law Columbia

Thus, ITLOS clarified UNCLOS as a legal basis for obligations to address climate change and its adverse effects, alongside the United Nations climate treaties, i.e. the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) and the Paris Agreement. This is most pronounced in the references to the Paris Agreement.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 The technology to keep the planet under 1.5 degree C target within reach.

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Finding Light in Dark Places: Specific Obligations for Climate Change and Ocean Acidification Mitigation

Law Columbia

This advisory opinion finds that UNCLOS regulates all sources of GHG emissions into the atmosphere as pollution of the marine environment; consequently, States Parties have specific obligations under UNCLOS to address their GHG emissions. 29, citing the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, article 31).

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COP28: “The Methane COP”

Legal Planet

Until recently, few could have anticipated that methane, a GHG not even mentioned in the Paris Agreement, would be central to COP28’s most headline-grabbing announcements. Moreover, these technologies may also open the door to new and more efficient ways of regulating methane emissions. Advancing Methane Regulation.

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Opinion: The case for optimism post COP26?

A Greener Life

But we have moved the goalposts significantly from the Paris Agreement in 2015 when we were then on course for 3.5 How far we have come since Paris. While some NGO’s and activists decry these technologies as a scam and unproven technology, it would be wrong to dismiss them. degrees C of warming.